Open the original 1611 King James Bible, and between the Old and New Testaments you will find a section called the Apocrypha, including Tobit, Judith, Wisdom and Maccabees. Many readers who grew up with the KJV have never seen these books inside it. Their presence did not mean its publishers gave them the same authority as the other Scriptures, but it complicates the idea that Protestant Bibles always excluded them entirely. Catholic tradition receives several of these writings as Deuterocanonical Scripture, while Orthodox collections vary and often extend further. These differences grew through centuries of transmission and decisions about which writings the Church should receive as Scripture. The Bible’s familiar table of contents has a history of its own.